Somatic Experiencing
Peter Levine who created Somatic Experiencing (tm) first book about the subject is called "Walking the Tiger, Healing Trauma" because of the metaphor of working on our trauma is like taking out something that feels dangerous for a walk. Our ancient brains learned to differentiate the shadows in the dark from tiger stripes to become hypervigilent and stay alive. Are you ready to stop having to be on alert and allow your brain to rest from having to look for danger? You deserve to be safe and be in the here and now.
I use Somatic Experiencing to work with trauma and transformation.
Trauma can be anything that made you uncomfortable and change how your feel about yourself to life and death situations. Transformation is for any thoughts that have been stuck and no matter what you do they do not change.
Some of it is talking,but it goes deeper by working with the fight, flight, freeze of the nervous system. When we have a trauma where we encounter a force that we cannot fight or get away from we freeze.
How does this work? How do I help your nervous system unlearn what has kept you safe and not longer works for you? The freeze will stay with us to keep us safe from danger. "The Somatic Experiencing® approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms.
1) When we meet we go over the sensations of how the nervous system lets your know it is "activated." The nervous system activates if your senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smell, taste or perioception (I call it your spidey sense) senses danger. We do not have to be in a dark alley or threatened by starvation. ANY time your senses take in information that you may be unsafe it will make your body: have an upset stomach, sweat, dizzyness, dry mouth, back pain and more.
2) I will guide you through the somatic experiencing process. Most of the time we treat these sensations with medication or annoyance instead of noticing the nervous system getting our attention.
4) Working together we move the felt sense of the nervous system sensing stuck defenses and discover older protective behaviors. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance through pendulation and titration for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions. " https://traumahealing.org/about-us/ You will never have to relive old traumatic memories over.We gently approach the survival energy that was developed to protect you and help your brain and body know that right here and now you can be safe. EVEN more detail about Somatic Experiencing-https://www.tomf.org/gd-resources/downloads/Dampsey_Final.pdf
Special interests in using Somatic Experiencing Family and generational trauma, stuck family "curses" that feels like no matter what you do it doesn't get better. Thoughts and Beliefs that no longer server you.For example "I'm bad", "I am the black sheep in the family"
How does this work? How do I help your nervous system unlearn what has kept you safe and not longer works for you? The freeze will stay with us to keep us safe from danger. "The Somatic Experiencing® approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms.
1) When we meet we go over the sensations of how the nervous system lets your know it is "activated." The nervous system activates if your senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smell, taste or perioception (I call it your spidey sense) senses danger. We do not have to be in a dark alley or threatened by starvation. ANY time your senses take in information that you may be unsafe it will make your body: have an upset stomach, sweat, dizzyness, dry mouth, back pain and more.
2) I will guide you through the somatic experiencing process. Most of the time we treat these sensations with medication or annoyance instead of noticing the nervous system getting our attention.
4) Working together we move the felt sense of the nervous system sensing stuck defenses and discover older protective behaviors. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance through pendulation and titration for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions. " https://traumahealing.org/about-us/ You will never have to relive old traumatic memories over.We gently approach the survival energy that was developed to protect you and help your brain and body know that right here and now you can be safe. EVEN more detail about Somatic Experiencing-https://www.tomf.org/gd-resources/downloads/Dampsey_Final.pdf
Special interests in using Somatic Experiencing Family and generational trauma, stuck family "curses" that feels like no matter what you do it doesn't get better. Thoughts and Beliefs that no longer server you.For example "I'm bad", "I am the black sheep in the family"